Spring in New Mexico USA   

All the trees are bursting into wonderful green leaf or colourful blossom. The birds and bees are working their Spring magic.

It is a delight to listen to the Eurasian Starling singing in my backyard here in the Southwest, as indeed they do at home across the Atlantic in England. Not a common bird here, but a familiar old friend to Europeans and a very welcome tenant in my old elm tree cavity.  
Our German colleagues call this bird "Star" which would truly describe its performance today.

Ice Plant

Peach Blossom

  

White-winged Dove display and copulation

  



Eurasian Collared-Dove 

While all these Springtime natural events are taking place in the backyard, above my home in Mesilla, the Spring migrations are well underway. Raptors are moving north; many Turkey Vultures, flocks of Barn Swallows, and small passerines.   

 A kettle of Turkey Vultures